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A trial scheme to collect textiles separately from other recyclable products is being extended. South Holland District Council’s waste and recycling team launched the venture last year. It is now being extended to include Donington, Weston Hills, Moulton, parts of Long Sutton, Wygate Park area of Spalding and parts of Holbeach. Blue bags and leaflets are currently being delivered to ...

The fight to retain social clubs for disabled children in Lincolnshire is reaching a critical point. Lincolnshire County Council has undertaken a consultation with stakeholders as part of a review of its short break service, which provides social club activities after school and in holidays. Some parents across the county fear that their children might be left with only mainstream ...

Members of South Holland District Council drew praise from both sides of the political divide as they met for the final time of the current administration. The Conservative and Independent groups agreed that councillors had gone about business during the past five years in a “generally courteous way”, which had enabled much good work to be achieved. Council leader Gary ...

An anaerobic digestion plant can be built in Crowland, say councillors. South Holland District Council’s planning committee passed Mr J Tansley’s plan for Adam’s Farm in Common Drove. A meeting on March 18 heard the plant would produce electricity and heat from rye grass and maize. Public objections centred chiefly on noise and odour pollution, but after planning officer Mark ...

Landlords can get useful advice on housing issues at a South Holland District Council forum. The session on Wednesday, April 8, will offer the chance to talk with housing professionals about relevant topics and key changes to government legislation. A guest speaker from the Department for Work and Pensions will discuss Universal Credits and how this will affect landlords. Advice ...

A community centre for Spalding’s Wygate Park could come to fruition without the church which was due to be a partner. In the next couple of weeks, about 1,400 homes on the estate will receive a survey aiming to gauge enthusiasm and suggestions as to what should be included. The project has been mooted for a long time, but it ...

A controversial 76.5m wind turbine which will supply the electricity needs for about 450 homes can be built in Long Sutton, say district councillors. The company behind the plan – Little Sutton Energy Company, which already runs a turbine in Winters Lane – has moved to ease fears of nuisance from visibility, noise and shadow flicker, an issue which dominated ...

The Allison brand of house is to make its first large-scale return on a controversial site in Pinchbeck. Larkfleet Homes was granted planning permission on March 18 for 169 homes on land between Wardentree Lane and Enterprise Way. There will be 24 different house types in a mix of properties from one to five bedrooms. Larkfleet planning director Mark Mann told ...

A proposal to turn a former Spalding care home into 17 flats has been labelled “completely unsuitable”. South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter made the remark about Market Homes’ plan for Halmer Grange in Grange Drive. Speaking as a ward member at a planning committee meeting on March 18, he said: “Yes, it’s a brownfield site but this is an ...

Pressure to find further burial space in Spalding has intensified after a plan to extend the cemetery was rejected. Estimates put remaining capacity in the Pinchbeck Road site at four years. South Holland district councillors voted against the council’s own proposal to convert a playing field in Chiltern Drive. That means all extension options have been exhausted – unless one ...

Budgets for two forthcoming South Holland District Council projects in Spalding have come under scrutiny. The main gates to The Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field in Winfrey Avenue are in line for renovation, and a new arts performance area is planned for Ayscoughfee Gardens in tandem with a refurbishment of the aviary. Spalding Town Forum chairman Coun George Aley updated ...

A controversial plan for a renewable energy park at Sutton Bridge has been refused by councillors after the applicant failed to provide sufficient details. There were cries of “well done” from objectors in the public gallery at South Holland District Council as the planning application by Energy Park Sutton Bridge Ltd was unanimously rejected. It was an end to the ...

Spalding and District Civic Society wants more people to give input to its work and is hoping to attract more members. The public is being invited to attend the society’s annual general meeting on Tuesday (March 24). A spokesman said: “It is clear from reading the Press that many people are concerned to improve the appearance and quality of life ...

Changes to improve Spalding’s traffic management will not take place until next year at the earliest. Alterations to traffic light sequences, pedestrian crossings and new roundabouts are all measures which have been touted to improve flow in hotpsot areas such as Station Approach and Winsover Road. However, Spalding Town Forum heard from Lincolnshire County Council Highways that the first junctions ...

A reactive road sign and red stop light are measures being considered to prevent drivers and cyclists flouting traffic restrictions in Spalding town centre. But the very least that Spalding Town Forum wants to see is businesses in the pedestrianised area reminded about their responsibilities in regards to the traffic order. The vast majority of vehicles are banned from using ...

Planning permission is being sought to extend a building set to become an off-licence. In January, Hemen Ahmad was granted a premises licence for a former sub-Post Office and dry cleaning shop in Bourne Road, Spalding. He has now applied for planning consent for an extension at the rear. The site is next to a proposed Spar development, zebra crossing ...

Spalding Town Forum is hoping to shame Anglian Water into taking action on two big issues in the town. Remedial work to the smell from the sewage works in West Marsh Road has been added to calls for Chatterton Water Tower to be spruced up. District councillor Coun Christine Lawton told last week’s meeting: “I just wonder if Anglian Water ...

A plan for a tourism centre to be established in Crowland has been granted planning permission. The proposal, by Ruthkay Ltd, is for an existing poultry farm at Carrington Drove to be used. Crowland Caravans and Camping would relocate to the site from Wyevale Garden Centre in nearby Postland Road. A similar plan was given planning consent in 2011, but ...

A £1,000 prize for good recycling was just the tonic for a great-grandmother recently diagnosed with having a stomach tumour. Julie Fox (80), of Moulton Seas End, cried when she was told of the win in South Holland District Council’s Green Bag Lottery. She said: “I’ve had a rough time lately so when I got the phone call to say ...

Planning approval for a new house in a Spalding cul-de-sac has led neighbours to claim that town centre areas are being allowed to become overdeveloped. Some residents in Knipe Avenue – a stone’s throw from St Thomas’s Road – are unhappy that their objections to the application were deemed irrelevant in planning terms. Ward district councillors Graham Dark and Roger ...